I don't remember what color 亜麻色 was either

I wrote on lang-8 "Can someone tell me if my sentences are correct?" and someone corrected it into "Can anyone show me if any of my sentences is incorrect?"

中国語の投稿だったんだけど・・・

間違ってんの、これ？

Hmm

wwww

@snailboat なんて返事しよう!　なんか、悪いなあ・・

ほっとこう・・・

いえ～す

A particularly picky English Composition teacher would probably mark "Can anyone show me if any of my sentences is incorrect?" as unnecessarily verbose.

(Particularly if they're followers of Strunk & White)

そおなんだ～！

anyが二つ・・・言われてみて初めて気づく・・・

@snailboat Some people feel comfortable with "any" anywhere, anytime, any way!

Hmm... I wonder if there's a good Japanese equivalent of Dr Seuss.

has been reading the classic Seuss to his 4 year old for the last week or so

@snailboat You poor deprived child :(

Yeah... Seuss books are earlier than that

but they do involve a lot of verbal cleverness, and repetition with some odd effects

Green Eggs and Ham

“Do you hear! I saw her. Your mother! Your mother is near! So, as fast as you can, Think of something to do! You will have to get rid of Thing One and Thing Two!” So, as fast as I could, I went after my net. And I said, “With my net I can get them I bet. I bet, with my net, I can get those Things yet!” Then I let down my net. It came down the a PLOP! And I had them! At last! Those two Things had to stop.

I remember that book, but only as something I read to younger siblings

「はらぺこあおむし」知ってる～

「ドクタースース」は知らないです。

日本の絵本で、ベストセラーになってるのって、外国の絵本の翻訳が多いんじゃないかな・・

「ぐりとぐら」は、もともと日本語だけど

あ。「あらしのよるに」の原作は日本語だったんだ

「アリス」は、柳瀬尚紀の翻訳を持ってます

ちくま文庫だったかな

"不思議の"? not "不思議な"?

anyways... gotta go listen to an executive drone on for a bit

「不思議の国のアリス」って、訳していたと思います

で、through the looking glassは、

「鏡の国のアリス」でした

柳瀬尚紀っていう人がLewis Carroll の本を、たくさん訳してます

punや、word playとか、韻(rhyme)が多いでしょう。で、日本語に訳すと、全部変わってしまうんです。だから、日本語で読んでも、面白くないです。

日本語の翻訳を読んで、「？？？何のこと？何がおもしろいの？？意味が分からない・・・」って思って、英語の原書を読んで、「ああ！シャレか！」・・・という場合も・・・‌​。

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na-adjectives can use 'no' for what we would call 'proper nouns' in English. 自由の女神像, for example.

その自由、名詞ちゃうかな？

Statue of Libertyやし・・・

なんで不思議の国のアリス？

不思議な国じゃくてさ

wonderland...

辞書見よっと

land of wondersみたいな？

辞書には「おとぎの国」だってさ。ちっ！

おお！説明されてるページがあるとは

Hmm... I wish there was an "activity feed" that we mods could look at, every question, answer, comment and edit on the site.

Sure, SO would drown under something like that... but it wouldn't be too bad for us

I really need to ask more questions myself. For one thing it will put to rest the misguided notion that having a diamond means you know something about the topic. :)

That's not a completely unreasonable question to ask on the site

I'm trying to decide if we should push on the "findability" button again

The data is extremely clear, if you want to improve googlability, you should include romaji in the titles. But we have some very strong ideological opposition to that.

不思議遊戯・・・うむむ・・・